]]>http://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/prinz-asfawossen-asserate-stuttgarter-zeitung/feed/0Addishttp://www.ethiogermany.de/addis-fortune/test-10/
http://www.ethiogermany.de/addis-fortune/test-10/#commentsTue, 10 Jan 2012 15:31:04 +0000http://www.ethiogermany.de/?p=3495http://www.addisfortune.com
]]>http://www.ethiogermany.de/addis-fortune/test-10/feed/0Kukunoor: ‘Don’t play by anyone else’s rules’http://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/kukunoor/
http://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/kukunoor/#commentsFri, 03 Dec 2010 06:15:32 +0000http://www.ethiogermany.de/?p=2229Film-maker Nagesh Kukunoor may not have had any other hit movies since Dor but he admits he still wants to play by his own rules. At an event held to beckon young film-makers in the country to enter a short movie-making contest, the young director spelled out his complains about the current crop of films and film-makers.

Kukunoor says, “Don’t play by anyone else’s rules. You should totally believe that what you are doing is right.” The film-maker feels that none of the current crop of movie-makers have anything original to talk about in their films. He points out, “The other day I was telling someone the same thing – the current crop of film-makers are all telling the same stories. Conformism seems to be the order of the day.”

The film-maker who has also made films like Rockford and Hyderabad Blues adds emphatically, “Take a poster of any current film. Replace the title of the film with any other, and no one will be able to tell the difference.”
Sudhir Mishra seemed to echo Kukunoor’s sentiment. He said, “If you are a film-maker, you should be ready with 20 new stories in your head. If your producer does not accept one, dish out another one to him.”

Film-maker Mahesh Bhatt is optimistic that the young short film-makers in the country are gradually trying to think out of the box, and that would become a significant contribution to Indian cinema. He explained, “To me, this alternate medium of cinema is very important. There is a young India who can do it. And I am looking forward to seeing some new kind of cinema from them.”
Referance:-http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kukunoor-dont-play-by-anyone-elses-rules/136325-8-66.html

]]>http://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/kukunoor/feed/0Land for Indians & Nigerianshttp://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/land-for-indians-nigerians/
http://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/land-for-indians-nigerians/#commentsThu, 02 Dec 2010 23:51:35 +0000http://www.ethiogermany.de/?p=2224The Meles ethnic apartheid regime has given a land in western Ethiopia that is the size of the State of Rhodes Island (765,000 hectares) to an Indian corporation named Karuturi Global. Thousands of Ethiopians who used to live and earn their living on the land have been displaced, and a few of them are hired by Karturi at meager salaries.

The photo below shows how the forest in south western Ethiopia is being destroyed to make space for flower farming for export to Europe. When asked about the impact of clearing trees to grow flowers in such a massive scale, Woyanne minister of agriculture Abera Deressa said: We in the Ministry of Agriculture are developing an environmental code of practice for the private sector… We are advising them not to cut trees, they have to manage soil erosion.”

]]>http://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/land-for-indians-nigerians/feed/0WikiLeaks Founder On The Interpol Wanted Listhttp://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/wikileaks-founder-on-the-interpol-wanted-list/
http://www.ethiogermany.de/headlines/wikileaks-founder-on-the-interpol-wanted-list/#commentsWed, 01 Dec 2010 12:40:05 +0000http://www.ethiogermany.de/?p=2180Two days after Internet whistleblower WikiLeaks released 251,287 U.S. diplomatic cables to major media organizations including the New York Timesand Der Spiegel, international police organization Interpol has placed founder Julian Assange on its wanted list for “Sex Crimes,” in a warrant issued by the Public Prosecution Office in Gothenburg, Sweden

WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Their goal is to bring important news and information to the public. They provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). …Learn More

While Interpol makes it clear that its infamousRed Notice list does not function as an international arrest warrant, it does serve the purpose of broadcasting internationally that the person in question is a fugitive and can aide in extradition process.

Assange, who has previously denied the allegations, is rumored to currently be hiding in the United Kingdom, which as of yet has not shown any signs of taking legal action. The @wikileaks Twitter account has remained dormant since news about the release went out.

Meanwhile…

WikiLeaks Hit By Another Massive DDoS Hacker Attack

WikiLeaks was hit by another massive DDoS attack on Tuesday morning. While access to the site was slowed, WikiLeaks’ decentralized nature makes shutdown more difficult than ever.

Hackers are after WikiLeaks. The controversial site was hit by a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday morning. The attack, which briefly made WikiLeaks inaccessible, was directed atcablegate.wikileaks.org–the recently released cache of secret diplomatic cables the organization has been leaking. WikiLeaks was also hit by another denial of service (DoS) attack on Sunday, when the cables were released.

A politically motivated hacker or group of hackers named “th3j35t3r”–“The Jester” in leet–took credit for the Sunday attack. According to a tweet, the site was targeted for “attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, ‘other assets’ & foreign relations.” The Jester’s Twitter feed contains a log of attacks on other sites, most of which are homepages for either jihadist or political Islamist organizations.

According to WikiLeaks, today’s DDoS attack exceeded 10 gigabits per second as of 9 a.m. New York time. This was much more intense than Sunday’s attack, which was a comparatively mild 2-4 gigabits per second. Internet security firm Netcraft investigated today’s DDoS attack as well. Netcraft’s analysis notes that cablegate.wikileaks.org is configured to use three different IP addresses as a load balancer, which still failed to prevent today’s DDoS attack.

WikiLeaks has put multiple safeguards in place to distribute their leaked diplomatic cables. Apart from working with media organizations such as theNew York Times and Der Spiegel, WikiLeaks has embraced every nerd’s favorite: Torrents. The organization has placed a torrent of all their diplomatic cable leaks on the Web.

In order to cope with the DDoS attack on Sunday, WikiLeaks did someimprovised DNS jiggering. The site redirected DNS configurations from their Swedish host to cloud sites hosted by Amazon.com in Ireland and the United States.

Interestingly, detailed analyses and walkthroughs of past DDoS attacks on WikiLeaks have been posted to the web. Anthony Freed of Infosec Island interviewed the Jester in February, who described a script he used called XerXes for a past attack:

“Okay it started with a little script I wrote a while back to harden-test servers […] I modified this script, and it was just a nasty script, very cumbersome. When I realized the extent of the jihad online recruiting and co-ordination involvement (much later), I realized I could turn this script into a weapon. […] XerXes requires no zombie network or botnet to be effective. Once a single attacking machine running XerXeS has smacked down a box, it’s down, there is no need for thousands of machines. But, XerXeS does not hurt intermediary nodes along its path to the target. So the answer is that such institutions’ systems would still be intact, as it causes no collateral damage, just not functional.”

It is important to remember two key things, however:

Today’s DdoS attack was highly complex. Although the timing did not significantly affect access to WikiLeaks from North America, it was timed to make it inaccessible to Europe for much of the business day.

DdoS attacks on WikiLeaks are great for agitprop and publicity, but do nothing to inhibit the site’s operations. The organization’s bread and butter for information dissemination are the traditional media, bloggers and day-to-day communication between individuals in person and online–not their website. Furthermore, torrents make a nifty backup plan.

Meanwhile, China is fighting WikiLeaks the traditional way: through the Great Firewall. China formally announced they are blocking access to WikiLeaks today, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei noting that “China takes note of the government reports. We hope the U.S. Side will handle the relevant issues. […] As for the content of the documents, we will not comment on that.”